St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-17
HOW 1T CAN BE ATTAINED.

hoH IL S<AN Dr. ATTAIN ELL.
The division question is leading
topic for consideration in all sections,
regardless of the failure of the politicians
10 stir up any enthusiasm or cOnsidera-
bic feeling on the subject. The mass of
the people are hopeful that somehow
the result will advance statehood, either
as one or two states. The vehement
declarations of some of the takers of
the Campbell school, that the people of
the South, or any section, will reject adj
mission without division, is not credit
able to their candor, for they are in
tensely hostile to the presentation of
the question to the people in
that form. They know very
well that the people would accept state
hood in almost any form it could be Of
fered. If it could be understood by the
mass of the people that following the
lead of the extremists, who announce
that they will never consent to admis-
sion as one state, was likely to delay
statehood, that following would dwindle
to very meagre faction. The interests
of the people require admission. There
is no audible dissent to this. The ques-
ton, then, is by which method will this
be most speedily obtained? There can
hardly be doubt in the Smind of any
person well informed as to the political
situation. The material facts lie upon
the surface. One state can no doubt the
coming winter be put on the short and
easy road to admission, and be fully de-
Veloped as a state in the Union in the
first session of the following congress;
and if this is not effected it will be
owing to the ObStinacy of the radical
divisioniStS. 1t is desirable that the
vote should be large one, as an indica-
ton that the people are DESTROYS to es-
cape the territorial condition. The
vote cast may properly be taken as
petition for admission, with prefer
ence for two or one state, as the ma
jOrity may be, but for statehood in some
shape at the earliest moment practicable.
PIERCE'S CHANGE OF BASE.
The Dakota edition of the Pioneer
Press has been given up to ex-Gov.
PIERCE for the last four months, and
monopoliZed by him in warm defense
of the trustees of the Yankton asylum
and most violent and constant oppose
ton to the railway assessment order of
the auditor of Dakota. Now the ex-
governor has experienced change. He
is to be commended for the alacrity
with which he dropped the Yankton
trustees, upon a reading of the testi-
mony taken at the investigation, al
though he might be thought severe in
his caricature of them in last SATURDAYS
Pioneer Press. He shows the recalci-
tant trustees securely lodged in Jail,
where he no doubt wishes they might
have been placed before he was so yer
dant as to defend their action before
the public. In regard to his change
of heart on the railway assessment
question the people were somewhat
surprised, well knowing his weak ma
ture and keen appreciation of the value
of standing in with ''rich corporations. )"
The meat in the cocoanut is found in
the fact that the ex-governor, in his de-
sire to serve the corporations well, over
did the matter, notably in his last at
tempt to alarm the people by stating
that the railroads would not pay any
taxes whatever. This because they were
required to pay their proportion of
taxes. But this threat did not alarm
the people of Dakota. 1t but aroused
them, and their quick response, indoors
ing the action of the auditor in the mat
ter, shows the people of Dakota to pos.
sess the American spirit of opposition
to tribute. Now, that the ex-governor
has reversed himself, it is in order for
some one to move to strike out the Dakota
edition of the Pinneer Press for say
four months past, or expunge from the
said paper the writings of ex-Gov.
PIERCE, which are now reversed.